Other forms: migrated, migrating, migrates
To migrate is to travel a long way each year with the seasons. Birds migrate, migrate south, migrating herds.
Some species navigate by the sun, the stars and the earth's magnetic field together, and the Arctic tern migrates further than anything else alive. Of people, to migrate is to move to live elsewhere. In computing, data is migrated from one system to another. Note that the Latin simply means to move.
1verbmigrateTo travel a long way each year with the seasons.
“Every autumn the swallows migrate south to Africa.”
2verbmoveTo move data to another system.
“Next month, the company will migrate all its customer records to a new system.”
migrate is a seasonal movement.
Latin migrare means to move or change place. Emigrate, immigrate and mutate come from a related family of change.
Latin
migrātus
English, today
migrate
Built from
1623; Latin migrātus, perfect passive participle of migrō (“to migrate, change, transport”), see -ate.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA